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I am incubating beardie eggs in a homemade incubator. The eggs are nesting in vermiculite that just clumps together when squeezed. They are on day 47 right now and I have noticed that in the past 4-5 days the eggs have started looking translucent in spots. I am guessing the humidity is too high and am trying to adjust it. Is there any other reason that this could be happening or is this normal? The eggs are plump and heavy for their size and if I candle them with a flashlight I can see healthy looking veins and I have even seen movement! Any thoughts and opinions would be helpful. I am keeping the temp right at 84 but I don't have a hygrometer of any kind and am winging it on the humidity. Home made incubator consists of sumergible aquarium heather in about 4 inches of water with nest box resting on bricks above. In a ice chest with thermometer probe keeping track of temps. (trying to handle eggs as little as possible but I am just so very curious about how they are doing )

Thanks

they could be infertile cause that happened to my vield eggs and they didnt hatch but it hasnt happened to my beardies yet
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2.3 beardies 1.0 uromastyx and more to come

No, the eggs are fertile if you are seeing veins and embryo movement... some of our eggs have started having transleucent spots at times... it could be a lack of calcium from the female when she laid the eggs, or it could be the dragons inside absorbing most of the calcium and causing the eggs to lose some of it...

I doubt it's the humidity. If the eggs are not crumpling or denting, the humidity is not to low. If there is water forming on the top or inside of the incubator that is good, unless they are dripping onto the eggs. If the water is dripping on the eggs you will want to decrease the humidity some. If the eggs are dry, leave the humidity where it is at.

I wouldn't worry about the eggs. Unless they are all doing this and like the entire egg is becoming transparent you should be fine. A couple of our eggs have had spots just like a window to look in lol.. and they hatched out fine.

brandon
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Dragons by Nature

Hello,

I have the same thing as you are encountering right now. I posted a question like yours about a month ago and got a variety of answers, most saying low calcium. After searching for myself and asking A LOT of people about it, it look’s like the moisture level is a little too high for the eggs. The people that I talked to that had this happen to before said that they are just fine and had health dragons from eggs like that. I can look inside of one of the eggs and see the dragon moving around in there. Very cool! I would post the link to the other thread, but Kingsnake suck’s on their search and I have a hard time finding anything on here

Think you can take some pictures of them? I will take some updated pictures here in the next few days…

Good luck…